When
the Lord Jesus said: "I am come that
they
might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly"
(John
10:10), He was promising us a life that would never have a lack of
anything
because He would "supply all (our)
need
according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Philippians
4:19). That's why the one who can truly confess that "the
LORD is my shepherd", can
also confess, "I shall not want".
In other words, each and every one that has a living relationship with
the mighty JEHOVAH as their "good
shepherd"
(John
10:14) shall never lack anything that is for their good for
now
and for eternity; for He is "the
eternal
God" (Deuteronomy 33:27), who loves
them
"with
an everlasting love" (Jeremiah 31:3);
and so He will tend to them as the shepherd does his sheep, so
that
none of His promises will fail them; "for
all the promises of God in him", who
is
"the
good shepherd",
"are
yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us" (2
Corinthians 1:20). Note that the rest of Psalm 23 gives us a picture
that
once the LORD becomes our "shepherd",
and we are His sheep, that He will provide everything, and take care of
us, even "through the valley of the
shadow
of death" (v.4), forever and ever;
for
"surely
goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will
dwell in the house of the LORD for ever"
(v.6). HALLELUJAH!!!